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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 26-30.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What should people suspend to enjoy poetry and fiction?
(a) Their natural skepticism.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Their initial thought.
(d) Their ulterior desires.

2. What does Vonnegut recognize the importance of in Chapter 17?
(a) Passion.
(b) Love.
(c) Friendship.
(d) Religion.

3. What does Vonnegut tell the reader he stripped of all its bad pieces in the prologue?
(a) A novel.
(b) A steak.
(c) A song.
(d) A garden.

4. What does the human race continue to devise cleverly?
(a) Love.
(b) Doomsday devices.
(c) Knowledge.
(d) Techonology.

5. What does Vonnegut predict jock itch will become fatal with?
(a) Sodium.
(b) Carbon.
(c) Sulfer.
(d) Hydrogen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Vonnegut's granddaughter's name?

2. What does Fleon discover on the human brains who have been attributed as an intelligent?

3. What does Vonnegut bemoan losing appreciation for during the timequake?

4. Who does Vonnegut believe humanism is for?

5. Where does Fleon acquire the brains he examines?

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